- Title
- Don't mention the "F" word: Using images of transgressive texts to gendered history
- Creator
- Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99440
- Identifier
- vital:10359
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781771121149
- Abstract
- The increasing use of Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) surveys by university administrators to assess teacher performance presents special problems for female academics, especially those who teach feminist or gender-focused topics. I teach history course comprising just such aspects. My problems are compounded by the fact that I work in a rural university whose student cohort tends toward a socially conservative outlook. This essay summarizes these multilayered issues and presents an outline of a lecture aimed at introducing students to feminism (the forbidden "f" word) and feminist concepts by stealth, as it were, through the use of photographs taken during my fieldwork research in historical prisons across Australia. I begin with images and discussion of historical prison architecture; then I take students "inside" the prisons via examples of inmate graffiti, in the hope of generating insight into the experiences of inmates. Graffiti created by inmate both male and, crucially, female, afford students glimpses into the concerns and daily sensibilities of both groups. In the process, students come to understand the need for a gendered approach to the topic, and some of the problems associated with SET surveys are resolved.
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Relation
- Feminist pedagogy in Higher Education p. 221-244
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Feminism; Gender
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